Saugerties Town Board OKs 3-day music festival for July

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Jan 11, 2013 at 2:00 AM

Jeremiah Horrigan

SAUGERTIES - The Saugerties Town Board has given its unanimous – though conditional – approval to a three-day music festival scheduled for mid-July.Though it is scheduled to take place at Winston Farm, the site of 1994's Woodstock II, the Counter Point Music and Arts Festival will be considerably more modest. Crowds will be limited to about 15,000, according to Town Board member Bruce Leighton.Leighton said the board was impressed with the presentation made by Jonathan Fordin, president of promoters MCP Presents.The big condition facing promoters will be a mass gathering permit, which involves health department, traffic and safety approval. Leighton said plans call for most of the festival-goers to camp out. If things go as planned, the festival will become an annual event.